What an interesting Texas “winter” we are having! I believe it may be the warmest November through January that we have had in my nearly four years in Conroe. By this time over the last few years, we had already experienced multiple hard freezes. I moved my plants into my...

We are in the season of parades, halfway between Macy’s Parade and the Rose Parade. One of my best friends used to go to the Rose Parade prior to attending the Rose Bowl game later that afternoon. His parents knew some people of wealthy means who had seats each year...

Hope affords us the opportunity to be human. We can be real about hardship, difficulties, grief, and suffering when we have hope. Biblical hope anchors our hearts and minds in the goodness of God. Such hope is defined as a confident expectation about the future, a certain conviction that God...

Long road trips were a wonderful part of my existence as a child. Every August, we would pack up the station wagon and head to Colorado for vacation. Our family took full advantage of lower humidity and a cooler environment, generating exciting times of exploration, outdoor activities, rest and relaxation....

John 1:35-51 – Great Expectations We all enter into new experiences with expectations, whether we realize them or not. How our experience then measures up to our expectations will often dictate our opinion of how well it went. If I go into a new experience with the expectation that it...